“So, if you think about your health and well-being in general as a Greek temple with physical, mental, and social pillars, that social pillar has been overlooked and underappreciated for way too long, and that is changing right now.”

“I think being social is almost more important than exercise why because it makes you feel loved and if you can wake up every day and know that you've got people that love you you feel good about yourself”

“Often a really wonderful time can be by virtue of the specific things that were said or the specific things that one engaged in but more often than not the final common pathway we should say of great experiences was a great physiological experience and a shared physiological experience.”

“And what you are saying is that if you do not take care of your social health, it can kill you based on the research that's come out about loneliness and how devastating it is to your overall well-being.”

“Busyiness is not a mark of success. Busyiness is going to prevent you from finding your person. And this is a problem we have. We're so busy with our self-care rituals and our workouts and our work that we are missing opportunities for connection.”

“we are the caretakers of each other's nervous systems and it doesn't matter what your opinion is like it doesn't you know it just but we just that's how we evolved as a species and so you get to decide what kind of a person are you going to be”

“What concerns me at this moment, it's the loss of social skills, but they are vital to us. And we have less and less opportunities to practice because we are pursuing connection beyond the human world.”

“you can't make a friend until you learn how to serve because friendship is fundamentally service friendship is an act of service and if you don't know the skill of service then you probably don't know how to be a friend let alone make a friend”